Director: Babak Anvari
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Runtime: 95 Minutes
Main Cast: Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke, Kerry Cahill
Plot: Will is an alcoholic bartender dealing with a failing relationship. One night in the bar a fight breaks out which turns ugly, and in the scuffle some College kids leave a mobile phone behind. Will takes the phone home but is horrified by what he finds on there.
My Thoughts: It took me longer to write that plot description than it did to write the rest of this post because quite frankly, I have no idea what Wounds is even about. This is what happens when I take a break from blogging – I fall out of the loop on what movies I should be avoiding like the plague, and I end up watching crap. It sounded promising though, and I kind of enjoyed the start of the movie. Armie Hammer is always fun to watch, and I liked the banter between his character and Zazie Beetz’s.
This is just one of those movies where so many details and plot points just seem to be meaningless. As fun as she was, Zazie’s character served no purpose. Dakota Johnson was seriously underused, too. When I got towards the end of the movie, I paused to see how long was left and saw it was less than 10 minutes. You know what these mystery movies are like, sometimes nothing makes sense until those last few minutes and then bam! Clarity. Nope, just weird grossness.
Netflix movies are always a bit hit and miss, and normally even with movies I didn’t enjoy I would still recommend that you give them a go and form your own opinion, but I couldn’t do that to you this time. Steer clear from Wounds, folks!
Best Bit: I actually can’t think of a single great moment, but the only time I really jumped and felt creeped out was when Will was driving, and picked up that phone just to look down and see his arm covered in bugs. It’s making me a little bit itchy just thinking about it.
Worst Bit: That ending was…ugh. I mean, it’s an ending I won’t forget in a long time, and is it better to be remembered as bad than it is to just be forgotten? I’m not sure…
Fun Trivia: Based upon the horror novella, The Visible Filth, by Nathan Ballingrud.
My Rating: 1 out of 5 cockroaches, and if you’re seeing them regularly at work and at home, maybe you should tell someone, yeah?
Aw, the premise sounded so interesting. It’s a shame that the film is so poorly done. Thanks for the heads-up!
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The set up is actually pretty decent, but the ending is truly, truly awful!
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This movie has been getting some straight up terrible reviews! I’m glad I decided to skip it. I may give the novella a try though!
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I’m really tempted by the novella too because the movie started quite promising! It’s not a long movie though so if you ever feel like watching it for a laugh, it’s always there, ha.
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Thanks for the warning! Zazie Beetz is enough to get me to watch something usually but I’ll pass on this one!
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Her and Armie Hammer have some great chemistry, them together was the only redeemable thing about the movie, to be honest.
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I love Zazie but I can’t stand Armie or Dakota so I’ll probably skip this one. lol Although I am tempted to see just how bad it is.
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If it wasn’t for the fact that the middle was so boring, I would tell you to definitely watch it just to experience the ‘WTF-ness’ of the ending!
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Nice review! I had heard about Wounds earlier this summer during the festivals, but it kind of dropped off the planet. lol I will literally watch anything for Dakota, but I might actually skip this one – especially since I can’t find it anywhere.
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I love Dakota too, she was one of the reasons I gave this one a go! She isn’t in it an awful lot sadly, and when she is, she doesn’t get a lot to do 😦
It’s on Netflix! 🙂
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Great post! I’ll heed your warning, though curiosity may get the better of me eventually. 😂 The director Babak Anvari previously made Under the Shadow, which was fantastic. It’s disappointing to see that this didn’t meet the mark.
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I’ve heard Under the Shadow mentioned a lot in the last couple of weeks or so, I’m really curious to give it a go!
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